Hey, I need a advice... Is it like that the registered company have more preference to be added in DMOZ/ODP? Do the editor really go and check for the company existence? I mean what are the criteria to get listed in DMOZ/ODP?
No. It has to be legitimate but not necessarily registered. Nor necessarily a company. They should, and many do. How often and deep the checks are depends on the nature of the business, how spam-prone it is, and whether the site has patterns about it that the editor has come across before that indicate a reason to delve.
Yes - blogs can be listed in the category that they fit into. Where there are a number of blogs on a topic, a sub-category can be created for them, such as Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines: Google: News and Media: Weblogs
As an editor I placed 8000 random sites in the right categories, which were the sites I wanted to place where I wanted to place them, and I did it in my own time, so when I wanted to place them too. I believe that was perfectly within the guidelines. If they listed an Amazon affiliate site selling watches it would be a pretty massive breach of guidelines so hopefully they won't have done that.
I've gone through Editor Guideline & Editor Application Form. For that I need to contribute to some site's content, overall internet experience and having the subject knowledge of the category for which I'm applying for... correct?
The criteria are secret just like the coca-cola recipe -- I could tell you but I'd have to kill you. Seriously, there seems to be so little consistency that there are no guaranteed criteria. Don't waste time just submit and forget, you're unlikely to get a listing any time soon and it won't have much effect if you are listed anyway... (as you'll guess my submissions have been ignored/failed!)
@phd There is nothing you can do. Just submit and forget. Take a look India was last updated http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/India/ Computers internet - 27 January 2006 Lazy editors
IIRC root categories only change when you add new category or do some other change they don't reflect changes in categories below but all the categories which I use to maintain there has been no changes since I was removed and neither have two out of four new categories which I have created been moved to there proper location despite the fact that I've sent request few days before my removal - I'm guessing it easier to remove me instead of moving those two categories?
Hmmm-wondered about that so I looked at the sub-cats: *Computers and Internet: Access Providers - Last update: 11:28 PT, Thursday, August 31, 2006 *Computers and Internet: Internet - Last update: 6:45 PT, Saturday, September 2, 2006 *Computers and Internet: Software - Last update: 12:15 PT, Wednesday, August 23, 2006 *Computers and Internet: Training - Last update: 1:45 PT, Saturday, July 15, 2006 *Computers and Internet: Design and Development - Last update: 14:14 PT, Thursday, September 14, 2006 Lazy indeed, they haven't even been updated since yesterday.
This means nothing without logs, since Robozilla has been busy killing dead links I'm guessing it does more work then all other living editors combined.
You are right, it means nothing. Which of course was my point to poopootalk-looking at the bottom of one top level page means diddly-squat. And has nothing to do with whether an editor is lazy or not, at least that's my opinion.
You don't have to necessarily have any of these, but you need to put the information on the application if you do. For example - I helped design a project tracking system beginning in the beta phase, I designed our website (before my daughter decided to have someone redesign it ), and I'm a horse breeder. Internet experience and subject knowledge (since the category I was applying for was Paint Breeders in Washington). Think of it as a job application - here is what I've done and this is what I want to do. Don't limit your internet experience to just the category you're applying for - instead describe every site you've contributed to.